Transmediale Open Call for Residencies

** Open Call Residencies 2025 ———————————————————— transmediale is collaborating with one local and three international partners, offering various residency opportunities for next year. The residency programme is part of transmediale’s core activities to establish more sustainable practices and long-term relationships with artists and its community. This year we warmly invite applications for the following programmes: […]

More Versificatore Propaganda, this time in a podcast

*Maybe I’ll get the thing built, somehow! https://re-creative.ca/the-versifier/ Joe and Mark are joined by the famed cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling, from his studio in Torino (Turin), Italy. Bruce describes himself as is a ‘diaspora kid’ and currently splits his time living in Austin, Belgrade, Torino and Ibiza. “I don’t like doing the same thing over. […]

The alert and never-tiring Hans Ulrich Obrist

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/curator-hans-ulrich-obrist-artificial-intelligence-serpentine-galleries-london-1234714858/ As artistic director of Serpentine in London, Hans Ulrich Obrist has championed all kinds of future-facing art. This year, Obrist—whom the New Yorker once called “the curator who never sleeps”—took that one step further by declaring a “Year of AI” at the lauded institution. Since joining the gallery’s leadership team in 2006, Obrist has […]

What is the point of an art gallery on the Moon?

*Posting is slow on the blog here, but I’m not dead, I’m just out in the countryside. https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/gallery/2024/07/25/lunar-codex.html

A 17th-century “Buckingham Dagger”

That’s a lot of practical utility for a weapon that is fancy, aristocratic “belt jewelry.” Buckingham himself was stabbed to death with a dagger by a disgruntled soldier who had been in one of his lost battles, because, although Buckingham was great at court favoritism, he was a terrible commander out in the field.

German Maker hacks dead rattlesnake

*That’s a very Californian story. *I’ve eaten rattlesnake. It’s okay. Alligator tends to be better.

A Processing job

*I’m not gonna do it, but maybe you would. Dear community member, We are excited to share a fully remote job opening at the Processing Foundation! For full consideration apply by Saturday, September 7, 2024 11:59pm EST. The Processing Foundation is looking for applicants who are passionate about open-source software development to apply for the […]

Elderly Texan pundits pontificating

*About Primo Levi and Frida Kahlo, among other subjects.

Art Knife Invitational circa 2022

*They’re doing their own publicity here, but clearly this is a central festival for pocket jewelry.

Pocket jewelry “art knife”

*I don’t doubt that price was being asked, but I wonder if that artifact would hold that value. Does the “art knife” community have enough funding and institutional maturity to support a stable art market? *It’s an interesting term-of-art, “art knife,” and the rather glamorous “Melissa Backwoods” is probably the ideal YouTube influencer to promote […]